Forbidden Paths by Belden P. J

Author:Belden, P. J. [Belden, P. J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-04-20T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Logan

Rage.

Undiluted rage roared through my body on a collision course that was going to make me explode. It wasn’t at Faith, well not all of it. I needed to get away from here.

Clear my head.

“I need a minute,” I say before walking out of the room.

As I close the door to her room, to our room, I hear her start to cry. I know she needs my reassurance right now, but I want to collect myself first. Christ! She just told me that her family was involved in killing my child.

Running down the hall and down the steps until I reached the main level, and out past a questioning Lia and Leif. I need to get away and think about what was happening. No what had happened.

I kick off my shoes and take off my shirt, tossing it to the ground. I ran out into the water and just swam. My head was swamped with images that I want to erase.

Here over the course of our time apart, I wanted to hate her. Hate her for what she did to me. Hate her for walking away.

Now, I feel guilty for wanting to hate her. I feel guilty for even thinking that she was going on to something better while I rotted.

Pushing myself harder, I swim like I am being chased by a shark. The power strokes help force the tension out of my body. After what seems like hours, I turn around and swim back to shore.

Leif stands at the shore waiting for me. Just what I need, my younger brother finding his older brother falling apart.

By the set of my brother’s jaw, I could tell that he was not going to accept my brush off.

“What do you want Leif?”

“Talk to me, Lo. I know you are the older brother, but we aren’t all that far apart. Please let me be there for you like you’ve always been there for us.”

Just then Lucas, Landon, and Levi walk down.

“Levi, when did you get here?” I ask as I pull him in for a hug.

“A little while ago. What’s wrong brother?”

Shaking my head, I looked at my four brothers grown and respectable men. The overwhelming pride I feel whenever I look at them consumes me, as it always does. Somehow in all the fucked up situation our life had become, I’d still managed to do right by them.

“I’ve tried my best with you guys. Tried to raise you to respect yourselves and reach for your dreams. After Frannie…” I start to say.

“You raised us just as mom and dad would have wanted. You lost out on so much of your life…” Leif tries to put me in focus here.

“I gained far more than you guys will ever know. Knowing that you guys had a shot was all I needed to keep me going through a day. I wasn’t Mom or Dad, but I hoped that if I gave you guys enough, loved you enough, worked hard enough… It wouldn’t hurt you guys so bad.

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